about the McDonalds’ scalding coffee case. No one is in favor of frivolous cases of outlandish results; however‚ it is important to understand some points that were not reported in most of the stories about the case. McDonalds coffee was not only hot‚ it was scalding -- capable of almost instantaneous destruction of skin‚ flesh and muscle. Here’s the whole story. Stella Liebeck of Albuquerque‚ New Mexico‚ was in the passenger seat of her grandson’s car when she was severely burned by McDonalds’ coffee
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documentary Hot Coffee by Susan Saladoff was exceptionally inspiring to contemplate the commonly accepted ideas on the United States legal system. Hot Coffee begins by clarifying the truth behind the lawsuit of Liebeck v. McDonalds Restaurants. After presenting what really happened to Stella Liebeck‚ the documentary leads into the tort reform movement that has been confining civil rights since the beginning. Showing how dissembled the tort reform has been‚ Hot Coffee presents the spilled coffee case and
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Thomas University Hot Coffee Nequan Edwin Business Law II Prof. Hernandez 3/12/15 Hot Coffee is a documentary which tells stories of four individuals and the impact tort reform laws had on their lives. These cases were discuss and related to tort reform in the United States. The documentary started with a $0.49 cent cup of coffee from McDonalds that turned into a million dollar lawsuit. Stella Liebeck 79 years suffered from third degree burns from the cup of coffee she had purchased
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And Now‚ The Rest Of The Story . . . By Kevin G. Cain* The McDonald’s Coffee Lawsuit 14 Journal of Consumer & Commercial Law omehow‚ somewhere along the way‚ the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit became the poster child for frivolous lawsuits. Who hasn’t taken a crack at this lawsuit for the sake of furthering their own cause? David Letterman and numerous other comedians have exploited this case as the punch-line to countless jokes.1 One of my favorite Seinfeld episodes involves Cosmo Kramer suing
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Hot Coffee The movie was split into four different exhibits (or topics basically). Each exhibit was centered on a case that was heavily influenced by that specific tort reform issue. The four exhibits were as follows: 1. The Public Relations Campaign 2. Caps on Damages 3. Judicial Elections 4. Mandatory Arbitration The first exhibit was centered on public relations and featured the case that gave the movie its name‚ the Stella Liebeck v. McDonalds case in New Mexico. The information presented
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HOT COFFEE MATERIALS: Ice crust Coffee Cork stopper Tea pot PROCEDURE: 1. We need to pre boil the coffee and after that put the cork stopper. 2. After many hours and you want to drink hot coffee but it gets cold just put some crusted ice on the top of the tea pot and there you have it‚ HOT COFFEE…. REFLECTION: At first I can’t believe that ice can boil the coffee because as we all know ice is cold not hot but when the experiment undergone I found out that
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Essay Abolish Cold Coffee Nothing compares to the complete utter solitude and comfort a warm coffee brings to you. It over takes your body and it runs through your veins like a river of delicious life. It is a perfect moment of happiness and only hot coffee drinkers will understand the true feeling of the warmth it brings to you. Hot coffee is a blessing to this universe but it is beginning to be over took by a disgusting imposter‚ cold coffee. What is the nasty cold coffee? Cold coffee is for the juvenile
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Alex Garcia Sociology 002 12:10-1:35 5/21/2014 “HOT COFFEE” REACTION ESSAY After watching the documentary “Hot Coffee‚” I realized that it greatly explained how one incident started a domino effect that shook up the way Government protects big business forever. I strongly believe that Tort reform was meant to back big business and take away the rights of Americans who are wronged by these corporations. From a sociologist standpoint I can especially see the concerns of
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The McDonald’s Coffee Case Back in 1992 when Stella Liebeck spilled McDonald’s coffee on herself‚ she never intended to sue. She simply asked for money to cover her medical charges and for the time her daughter was out of work caring for her. When she received an inadequate response from McDonald’s‚ that’s when she sought an attorney. This case has turned out to be one of the most misunderstood cases of our times. In Stella Liebeck’s defense‚ it can be said that McDonald’s should not have been
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At outset‚ a coffee spill case might seem trivial and outrageous‚ but there are various factors for which we feel McDonalds did deserve to be punished. Temperature Conformation to industry standards: Spokesperson of national coffee association says that McDonalds conforms to industry temperature standard and any temperature above 130 degrees could cause third degree burns. Although doctors mentioned that lowering temperature to 160 degrees takes a longer time for burns to take effect
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